Act 2: Vella Teleporter Bug (Game-Breaking)

[Leonard McCoy]

For some reason I can no longer access any of the teleporters on the ship as Vella to solve the puzzle of getting Mom out of her room.

When I want to go through the red teleporter again in the trophy room, the teleporter refuses, telling me to teleport back to get my head the normal size (which it already is). Also, the red teleporter is shown as accessible (with open doors) in the trophy room and teleporter room, but when I go up and interact with it, the doors are suddenly shut and I get the aforementioned reply or "Nuh-uh-uh."

Here is what I think happened: I got to the trophy room using the teleporter, went the long way around back to the teleporters, and used the blue teleporter, then went the long way back again. I'm not sure, though, as the course of action I have taken is difficult to reconstruct at this point.

Switching back and forth between Shay and Vella didn't make the game state in Vella's part recoverable. I'm virtually stuck.

[Lazerbot Andy]

Does anyone have a solution for this? I've also tried going back and the teleporter door won't let me pass through.

edit: Okay, so you have to keep back tracking and such. The rules of teleportation are lame.

[lieutenantkirtar]

I assume you have tried all 4 of the possible teleporter entrances and attempted to talk to mom. If all of those have failed then it could be a bug.

It seems likely it is a bug since playing through the game twice I never encountered a time when a teleporter door was open before I interacted with it.

[Leonard McCoy]

Originally posted by lieutenantkirtar:

I assume you have tried all 4 of the possible teleporter entrances and attempted to talk to mom. If all of those have failed then it could be a bug.

It seems likely it is a bug since playing through the game twice I never encountered a time when a teleporter door was open before I interacted with it.

I have indeed tried each of the four teleporter entrances. The conversation with Mom has also not moved on to quizzing Vella about her son. The glitchy, abrupt transition from open to shut door is another hard tell for me that we are clearly dealing with a bug here.

I have since sent in my bug report and save game to Doublefine via email. Here is hope they can finally eradicate the teleportation bug (since it seems to have been an issue during playtesting as well that seemed fixed).

[Leonard McCoy]

I was finally able to recover the game state. But first, to reiterate on my bug report to make it more clear which part was a bug:

The doors of the red teleporter (both ways) were glitching out. They appeared open but when interacting with them, they would suddenly shut tight and I was caught in the conversation loop with the red teleporter even though I tried to teleport back (but it would ultimately not let me).

All four teleporter entrances refused access — except the fifth one, the blue return teleporter (near the air vent). After going through it the puzzle could be continued as intended. The red teleporter doors no longer glitched out and the conversation loop with the red teleporter broke. I could thus start the conversation puzzle with Mom after enlarging Vella's head twice.

It is probable that through some combination of teleporting back and forth I ended up using the blue teleporter last but didn't return through it which, for some reason, triggered the red teleporter loop and red door glitch down the line somewhere.